Howard Fineman: Better late than never

Nobody in the Beltway likes to be left off the CW bandwagon, and Newsweek's Fineman finally got his ticket punched with this Blago/Obama doozie. Gee, nothing loaded in this language, right?

-"The Blago Distraction"

-"isn't great news for Team Obama"

-"a little suspicious"

-"It was widely speculated"

-"Emanuel (and, by extension, Obama) could pay a price"

-"the Chicago mess simmers"

-"there seems little doubt that Emanuel will survive"

-"Emanuel already has blown up"

-"he is already a bigger story than is good for either him or his boss"

-"however legally justified"

Our favorite passage was this [emphasis added]:

The original release was supposed to be this week. But it was pushed back, the Obama camp said, at the request of the official investigating Blago: Chicago-based U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the 21st-century Eliot Ness. Fitz's office confirmed that he had made the request, though there is no way of knowing how adamant he was about it.